Easiest way in my experience is simply to install twice, to different directories. /opt/apache/http-2.0.xx/prod /opt/apache/http-2.0.xx/test The apache install will take care of all the paths etc, so you don't need to worry about that. (outlook will do random capitalisation to my email, sorry about that...) I've done this using a couple of scripts....you could make this more complicated, but this works ok. Apache Configure-yourapache.sh Configure-test.sh Configure-prod.sh Httpd-2.0.xx.tar.gz When you want to build, remove any previous build directories, then Tar zxf httpd-2.0.xx.tar.gz Cd httpd-2.0.xx ../configure-prod.sh configure.sh #!/bin/sh ./configure "--with-mpm=worker" "--enable-mods-shared=all proxy cache disk-cache" "--prefix=$my_apache_dir" "--enable-deflate" "$@" Configure-test.sh #!/bin/sh Called=`dirname $0` Export my_apache_dir=/opt/apache/apache-2.0.xx/test $called/configure.sh Configure-prod.sh #!/bin/sh Called=`dirname $0` Export my_apache_dir=/opt/apache/apache-2.0.xx/prod $called/configure.sh This makes sure that test/prod are built the same, but in different directories. Then in your httpd.conf files, you remove all common stuff to separate file(s) Test/conf/httpd.conf -> /somewhere/conf/Httpd.conf.test Prod/conf/httpd.conf -> /somewhere/conf/http.conf.prod Httpd.conf.test DocumentRoot "/somewhere/content/test" Listen xxx .... Include /somewhere/conf/common/common.inc ... Httpd.conf.prod DocumentRoot "/somewhere/content/prod" Listen yy Include /somewhere/conf/common/common.inc Hope that helps, James > -----Original Message----- > From: Lingel, Jason [mailto:jasonl@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: 27 April 2005 23:27 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] Running multiple daemons > > I'm running apache 2.0.46 on linux and want to run multiple daemons. One > web site will be the production site and the other will be the test site. > I want to run two daemons so I can bring the test site up and down at will > without impacting production and make config changes for testing if > needed. > > I have two different ip addresses and use two different httpd.conf files, > one pointing at a different config. file, i.e.: > > httpd -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-stage.conf > > I can get these started well enough but I need to get them to autostart on > reboot and the /etc/init.d/httpd script only handles httpd.conf. I > created a separate /etc/init.d/httpd-stage script but I'm having to hack > at it and import and modify functions from the /etc/init.d/functions > script to make things work. > > It seems like this is a path that should be well-traveled but I haven't > found much in the newsgroups about it. Has anybody seen this process > documented anywhere or have any clues about how to make it work other than > hacking at the init scripts? > > TIA. > > Jason Lingel > jasonl@xxxxxxxx > > > -------------------- > > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > may contain privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies > of the original message. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx